To wear ear plugs

DD (3 months) sleeps next to my bed in a Moses basket. She is a snuffler / shuffler / squeaker / creaker / generally very noisy baby. She's in a pretty good routine of going to bed around 6.30pm, dream feed at 10.30pm, then usually able to go through til around 6 when I get up with her.

BUT, due to her noise, I am usually awake for at least an hour around midnight and then on and off again from 4 until we wake up. I am the walking dead with knackered-ness (I also have a 2 year old).

Could I try ear plugs? Has anyone done this and could reassure me that I will still wake if she cries.

My daughter was exactly the same, so loud and then would sigh so loudly I'd lay there waiting for her to breathe again. I soon went from expecting her to share our room for 6 months to moving her into the nursery at 10 weeks. The snuffling was a lot better over the baby monitor. I agree that eat plugs would probably make u more aware of sound not less. Good luck!

Earplugs are great at blocking low-level background noise, but they don't cut out sound completely. I wear earplugs to block out OH's snoring, but I still wake up if there is shouting, or the phone rings or an alarm goes off, etc.

Good point about DP. I think he would wake if she cried. Might give it a go tonight. Can't be worse than last night. I moved DD1 out if our room at 10 weeks, but no space for DD2. Daren't put her in with older sister just yet as cant face both of them being noisy.

Agree that you'll probably still hear her cry- ear plugs muffle low level noise enough to allow you to sleep But if you're a light enough sleeper that her snuffling wakes you in the middle of the night a sudden, shrill cry will more than get you up even with earplugs in!

I have recently started doing this feel guilty about it, but it works. I go to bed at 10pm with earplugs. DP gives dream feed and settles LO in basket downstairs. Then brings baby up when I am already in deep sleep. If baby cries or makes loud noises in the night I hear him anyway through the ear plugs. Usually by morning they've fallen out and I get woken up about 5.30am by the noise of LO playing in his basket when he wakes up.

I wear earplugs and have done extensive research.... The 'Noise-X' bullet shaped earplugs (sold in Lloyds Pharmacy) are definitely the best for blocking out snuffly baby noises... and husband snoring... and birds tweeting.Strangely though, you do still know when to wake up if you need to!